Epidendrum chlorops Rchb. f. 1880 GROUP Anceps SUBGROUP Polyanthum Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Green Epidendrum
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Sinaloa, Navarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Mexico, Guerrero and oaxaca Mexico on the pacific slopes at elevations of 350 to 1700 meters as a small to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with simple, cane-like, terete to somewhat laterally compressed straight stems carrying 6 to 15, distichous, throughout the apical 2/3's of the stem, coriaceous, elliptical to ovate, entire marginally, spreading leaves that blooms in the early spring through mid winter on a terminal, erect, pluri-racemose, dense, can continue to produce new racemes over several years from the nodes of the primary inflorescence, terete, smooth, 3" [7.5 cm] long, 15 to 30 flowered inflorescence enveloped by 2 to 5 imbricating, tubular, oblong-triangular, acute to acuminate bracts and shorter than the ovary, progressively shorter apically, ovate-triangular, acute flora lbracts and carrying simultaneously opening, resupinate flowers that yellow with age.
Said to be a synonym of Epidendrum clowesii Bateman ex Lindl. 1844 but has terete to slightly laterally compressed stems.
Synonyms Epidendrum simile Schltr. 1918
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 9 Plate 990 Hagsater 2007 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1146 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1316 Hagsater 2010 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 13 Plate 1321 Hagsater 2010 see recognition section
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